Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — Base Ball Notes. [ARTICLE]

Base Ball Notes.

The Comets played a very nice game at Rose Lawn on the Fourth, and got away with the Lowell club with a good deal of ease. Tho Comets have accepted a challenge to play two games with the Michigan City club. . The games will take place on the 18 and 19 of this month, at Michigan City. Excursion rates have been secured on the railrqads and it is expected that a large number of the friends of the Rensselaer club will go with them, to witness the games. The Rensselaer club is to receive 40 per cent, of the gate money for their expenses. The Comets are anxious .to play the concluding game with the Monon club, but the latter seem not at all eager, for the contest. The Comets played a neat practice game, Friday afternoon, with a picked nine composed of two members of the Michigan City nine, two good players from Milwaukee, Wis., one from Chicago, and four from this place. The Comets won by a score of eleven to three. The Momence club, which got away so badly with the Rensselaer nine, last year, is expected to come over to Rensselaer to play with the Comets before many weeks.

Fire at Fowler. —A fire at Fowler Tuesday burned the Fowler Bank building, Jacob Smith’s Shoe Store and some other buildings. The loss is stated at 86,000, with insurance of $4,000.